that sounds corny enough to absolutely be where they story goes. i so wish games had better stories, but that sounds spot on.

if you wanna be a capital g Gamer, you gotta max out your pedantry stat and get on your soapbox.

This is only going to get worse. Federal legislation didn’t stop software, tv, movie, game, music, or AV piracy, and it won’t stop this. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try but I don’t think it will stop deepfakes at all.

But what would the song be?

Don’t be silly, the Grammys can’t be racist, see, they gave Chappelle a Grammy for his transphobic bullshit, see, no racism here!

I mean, yes, it would be easier if you knew the game, but it’s not like Valhalla is a concept invented by Ubisoft. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Norse mythology has probably heard of it. And even if you didn’t get that in grade school European history like I did, it’s hardly obscure knowledge, since it’s…

Not sure I buy the stuck throttle excuse. I’d wager they put it in the wrong gear and when it went backwards instead of forwards they panicked and hit the gas instead of the brake.

He prefers it in the original German.

The game’s community is now at each other’s throats

$35 for a game like this, that can potentially offer hundreds of hours of playtime, is a fucking bargain.

The short of it is that they’ve walked back all the things that were going to get them sued to hell and back if they actually tried it.

Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast, so it’s technically true, but Wizards is still a corporate entity of their own with their own CEO, management, and employees. Hasbro does own D&D, but I wouldn’t insist on that kind of labeling or call it “more accurate”, or else you end up with things like “Yum Brands introduces a…

She could, but the article is basically explaining why she isn’t doing that.  She is still treating her staff as human beings that she doesn’t want to just fire, especially when they probably have skillsets that can be repurposed elsewhere for her.

Without the sweet van.

All this A.I. tech will eventually lead up to this moment. That’s all I keep thinking about.

It’s media production, and there’s a lot of human labor required for making media that looks professional and consistent. Even going by your asinine amazement that there could be someone whose job it is to heat up the hot tub, while it probably isn’t solely one person’s job, that one person could be maintaining the…

They were never upset with her because they genuinely thought she was scamming anyone; they were upset that she’s a woman doing her own thing successfully.

I think many people assume because she is the one on camera there is no one else.  Like many big streamers, ESPECIALLY ones as big as her, have a whole cadre of people behind the scenes on her payroll.

Has Amouranth ever actually scammed anyone (nfts, crypto rug pulls, shitty paid events, etc.) or are people just made she monetizes her sex appeal?

To paraphrase John Donne, no one is an island, floating in a hottub entirely by themselves. Solid, social reason!